John A. Schuster’s Research, Textbooks, Reviews and Occasional Pieces on the History, Philosophy and Sociology of Scientific Knowledge.

News May 2014

Thursday, 22 May 2014 05:51
John A. Schuster

In November 2015 I was elected a Fellow in the Australian Academy of the Humanities. I am a member of two of its Sections: 'Philosophy and History of Ideas' and 'History'.

In May 2015, Descartes-agonistes was subject of a productive and to me encouraging session of the Princeton/Paris ‘Seminaire Descartes’. I thank Denis Kamboucher for inviting me. Dan Garber, Roger Ariew and Sophie Roux were the commentators. We all look forward to being able to discuss Descartes’ Regulae in more detail when the so-called Cambridge ms. is finally released from the halls of the illuminati, to be placed before the wider public, including the ‘outsider’ experts who would appreciate a look at it before another 388 years roll by.

I know of four insightful and intelligent reviews of Descartes-agonistes. Indeed they are the only reviews I have ever seen:

The only exception is a recent, rather pointless if innocuous review in Isis 107:1 (2016): 265-266.

The Cambridge Descartes Lexicon (CUP) has now appeared. I have six articles in it, five of which appear in pre-publication form in the Research Section below.

Newly posted:

[1] final pre-publication version of J.A.Schuster, ‘The Pitfalls and Possibilities of Following Koyré: The Younger Tom Kuhn, ‘Critical Historian’, on Tradition Dynamics and Big History’, to appear in R.Pisano and J.Agassi [eds.] Hommage to Alexandre Koyré, 1964-2014, Springer, Dordrecht, to appear later in 2016.

[2] review essay of James Marcum, Thomas Kuhn’s Revolutions, which has appeared on line at Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. This version is slightly longer than the NDPR version .

Coming within a couple of months:

Pre-publication version of a paper in honor of Desmond Clarke: J.A.Schuster, ‘Did Descartes Teach a Philosophy of Science, or Implement Strategies of Natural Philosophical Explanation?’to appear in S. Gaukroger and C. Wilson (eds.) Descartes and Cartesianism: Essays in Honor of Desmond Clark (CUP).

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